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| Ammunition Encoding Act Proposed In 18 States - Ammo Control |
| 2008-12-03 |
| The 2008 Legislative session has begun, and the Ammunition Accountability Act is being introduced across the country. Below is a summary of legislation that has been introduced throughout the United States. To view the bills' status click on the links to the individual bills... Gun control has failed, so now the big effort is to prohibit ammunition. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 I couldn't find the referenced bills in Tennessee legislation. The House bill has no history and no action has been taken. The Senate bill could not be found. These bills must be in the planning stages as they have not been introduced. I have received no alerts from the Tennessee Firearms Association. They must be looking for someone to sponsor them. Our legislature has recently replaced the speaker who has long been an impediment to pro-firearm legislation. Moreover, Tennessee has used firearms for protection and hunting for a long, long time. I think these bills are wishful thinking of gun grabbers and gun controllers; just as the personalized weapons were that had to recognize your hand before they could be used. This technology is sort of like the taggant technology used with explosives. However, this technology does not prevent people from manufacturing explosives. Same is true of ammunition; if a person wants to cast bullets, it is difficult to prevent it and as already mentioned there are billions of rounds of ammunition unidentified. Additionally, ammunition is readily available from other countries that is not identified. And then there will be the blackmarket for ammunition. If thugs want to use firearms and ammunition for crime, they will merely steal both or buy them illegally as they do now. The ammunition encoding act aims at controlling law abiding citizens. The administration of such a law would be an enormous burden to taxpayers. All the current bailouts will not leave enough Federal money buy toilet paper for the Congress. The States can't afford such legislation either. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-12-03 23:37 |
| #6 The Washington bill was referred to committee in Feb 2008 so it is dead (at least until the next session. THis link: http://www.jouster.com/cgi-bin/guntalk/config.pl?noframes;read=78208 states that the serialzation scheme is the product of a couple of Seattle area lawyers that mean to extract a licensing fee from every round of bullet sold. so in addition to putting a chokehold on honest citizens they are gonna have their hands in our pants too. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-12-03 23:09 |
| #5 This is a round about way to ban ammunition. At least the washington state law requires that the encoding be such that it is 'higly likely' to survive imact. Is that even possible or practical? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-12-03 20:13 |
| #4 There are multiple references to it being another Soros front org. It usually is when a well funded, pre-canned "grassroots" organization springs up from nowhere. Why not. Soros bought the US presidency, what's the second amendment compared to that? States w/ Ammunition Accountability Act bills pending |
| Posted by: ed 2008-12-03 19:34 |
| #3 Encoding means little unless the purchaser can be identified through licensing. What we will have with this is defacto gun registration and the potential for limits on the type and quantities of ammunition available to the consumer. Lastly, this will cost a bundle to implement and what will be the status or legal disposition of old, non-encoded ammo. One can only guess. The cost will be passed along to the consumer. Er huh, hmmm, encoding.... shotgun shells???? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-03 19:13 |
| #2 Look for them to go after reloading supplies and equipment, too. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-12-03 19:04 |
| #1 I wonder who the ammunitionaccountability.org is and who is paying for it? |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-12-03 18:52 |